Filho da guerra
Subtitle: a história de sobrervivência e triunfo de uma criança-soldado do Sudão
By: Emmanuel Jal con Megan Lloyd Davies ; tradução de Cláudia Ramos e Helena Ramos
Contributors: Lloyd-Davies, Megan
Publisher: Albatroz
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: por
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789720041746
Subjects: Child soldiers; Rap musicians; Political activists; Childhood and youth; Personal narratives; Refugees; Children; Biography; History
Work titles: War child
Description: In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven-year-old Sudanese boy, living in a small village. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, his family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan. Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade. Remarkably, he survived, and was adopted by a British aid worker, beginning the journey that would lead him to music: he recorded and released his own album, including the number one hip-hop single in Kenya, and has gone on to perform with international music stars, and to use his fame to help children like him.--From publisher description.